Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 240 295
Rank change year-on-year -61 +55 -79
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 496 532 860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.30% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.39% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 204 312 490
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £56,461 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -5.59%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £59,350
% change year-on-year -2.96% +9.52% -6.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 447 £75,000 +7.14% 221
London +44 257 £90,000 +24.14% 105
Work from Home +30 219 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -129 186 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -45 58 £75,000 -1.64% 31
South East -112 40 £57,500 -11.54% 47
North West -23 35 £82,500 +4.76% 16
Midlands -53 35 £63,076 -2.96% 19
West Midlands -14 25 £57,500 -9.80% 11
East of England -1 22 £60,100 -12.58% 21
Yorkshire -36 20 £68,510 +110.80% 13
South West -52 18 £62,500 -3.29% 12
Northern Ireland -23 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -48 10 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Wales -19 4 £61,001 +2.64% 6
Scotland -37 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
North East -28 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.63%) Confluence
2 11 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) CICS
4 2 (0.40%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (3.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 19 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.22%) Workfront
2 9 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (12.30%) AWS
1 61 (12.30%) SaaS
2 52 (10.48%) Azure
3 21 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 19 (3.83%) Pulumi
5 18 (3.63%) iPaaS
6 15 (3.02%) GCP
6 15 (3.02%) GitHub
7 14 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.81%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.81%) PaaS
10 8 (1.61%) H2O.ai
10 8 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.01%) Asana
11 5 (1.01%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.81%) Collibra
12 4 (0.81%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.81%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.67%) Broadband
2 12 (2.42%) HTTP
3 8 (1.61%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.61%) WAN
4 6 (1.21%) LAN
4 6 (1.21%) RTP
5 4 (0.81%) NGN
6 3 (0.60%) Multicast
6 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.60%) Wireless
7 2 (0.40%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) Firewall
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.45%) Metadata
2 20 (4.03%) NoSQL
2 20 (4.03%) Power BI
2 20 (4.03%) RDBMS
2 20 (4.03%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.41%) Tableau
5 6 (1.21%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.21%) SAP BW
5 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.40%) Big Data
7 2 (0.40%) DB2
8 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (5.04%) JIRA
2 19 (3.83%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.60%) ERwin
3 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Git
General
1 186 (37.50%) Finance
2 171 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 129 (26.01%) Marketing
4 90 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (13.51%) Banking
6 63 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (10.28%) Retail
8 48 (9.68%) Law
9 41 (8.27%) Legal
10 37 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (6.05%) Financial Institution
12 27 (5.44%) Back Office
12 27 (5.44%) Public Sector
13 21 (4.23%) Manufacturing
14 17 (3.43%) Digital Economy
14 17 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.22%) Automotive
15 11 (2.22%) Electronics
15 11 (2.22%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 138 (27.82%) Product Manager
2 71 (14.31%) Lead
3 67 (13.51%) Senior
4 41 (8.27%) Product Owner
5 35 (7.06%) Senior Manager
6 30 (6.05%) Senior Product Manager
7 19 (3.83%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.63%) Developer
9 17 (3.43%) Consultant
9 17 (3.43%) Digital Product Manager
10 16 (3.23%) Change Manager
11 14 (2.82%) Product Management Director
12 13 (2.62%) Development Engineer
12 13 (2.62%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.42%) Data Manager
13 12 (2.42%) Software Development Engineer
14 11 (2.22%) Business Consultant
14 11 (2.22%) Security Engineer
14 11 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
2 15 (3.02%) REST
3 9 (1.81%) YAML
4 8 (1.61%) Keras
4 8 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.61%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.81%) .NET
6 3 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.40%) CSS
7 2 (0.40%) HTML
7 2 (0.40%) Next.js
7 2 (0.40%) Spring
7 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.20%) Flask
8 1 (0.20%) PySpark
8 1 (0.20%) React
8 1 (0.20%) SOAP
8 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (22.78%) Product Ownership
2 33 (6.65%) Onboarding
3 32 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (5.85%) Social Media
5 28 (5.65%) Cloud Native
5 28 (5.65%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.03%) Marketing Technology
7 19 (3.83%) Over-the-Top Content
8 13 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.41%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.21%) IoT
13 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.21%) Podcast
14 5 (1.01%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.64%) Linux
2 19 (3.83%) Unix
3 6 (1.21%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (55.44%) Roadmaps
2 230 (46.37%) Agile
3 135 (27.22%) Product Roadmap
4 108 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 107 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 100 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (20.16%) Product Strategy
7 96 (19.35%) AI
8 94 (18.95%) Mentoring
9 91 (18.35%) Product Vision
10 80 (16.13%) Decision-Making
11 77 (15.52%) Analytics
12 71 (14.31%) User Experience
13 66 (13.31%) User Stories
14 63 (12.70%) Coaching
15 61 (12.30%) Business Development
16 59 (11.90%) Customer Experience
17 57 (11.49%) DevOps
17 57 (11.49%) Information Security
17 57 (11.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.67%) Python
2 36 (7.26%) Java
3 27 (5.44%) SQL
4 25 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.03%) Go
6 19 (3.83%) Bash
7 9 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.01%) Bicep
9 4 (0.81%) C#
10 2 (0.40%) COBOL
10 2 (0.40%) JCL
10 2 (0.40%) PHP
10 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (18.55%) Degree
2 36 (7.26%) Master's Degree
3 29 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.64%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.03%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.02%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.21%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.21%) PMP
9 5 (1.01%) MBA
10 3 (0.60%) HNC
10 3 (0.60%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.40%) CBAP
11 2 (0.40%) CCNA
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.84%) QA
2 13 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.02%) NCSC
6 9 (1.81%) NIST
7 7 (1.41%) GDPR
8 5 (1.01%) PMO
9 4 (0.81%) IFRS
9 4 (0.81%) SLA
10 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.60%) PERC
11 2 (0.40%) COREP
11 2 (0.40%) FINREP
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.20%) GMP
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (5.85%) Terraform
2 23 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.83%) Ansible
3 19 (3.83%) Argo
3 19 (3.83%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.83%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.06%) Google
3 27 (5.44%) Adobe
4 13 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.81%) Oracle
6 8 (1.61%) Databricks
6 8 (1.61%) Dell
6 8 (1.61%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.41%) SAP
8 6 (1.21%) Foundry
9 4 (0.81%) Sage
9 4 (0.81%) Toshiba
9 4 (0.81%) YouTube
10 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.60%) CQG
10 3 (0.60%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.60%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.60%) Reuters
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Trayport